Harald Hanche-Olsen

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icon location Norway icon location Mathematician with a life long (since the era of paper tapes and punch cards) interest in computers.

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When running a python3 install for anything, you must surround the name with quotes

It happens because square brackets are used for indexing: ``` ~> echo splat64[3] a ``` There is no config option to change this. And patching elvish to prevent it? That...

For loop fails as script but works in the REPL

You have to include `use str` in your script. You probably have that line in `rc.elv`, but elvish doesn't read the init files when executing a script. (To see what...

What is the idiomatic way to read from the standard input?

The very short answer to the question about `all` lies in the end of its longish description. The bit about being the the identity function for the value channel is...

What is the idiomatic way to read from the standard input?

Anyway, on reading from a pipe: It's tricky if the pipe contains a mixture of bytes and values. In general, I think it's best to avoid that. To read all...

COMPLETING argument menu shown even when only one completion on paths that start ~/

This is a duplicate of #474.

COMPLETING argument menu shown even when only one completion on paths that start ~/

Hmm, I guess I was a bit hasty there. Not enough caffeine yet. However, if the not-quite-duplicate is fixed, then the current issue is moot. A related issue that I...

Missing documentation: fd and name keys for file objects

As an aside, doesn't it make more sense to have `$file[fd]=$nil` when the file is closed?

Introduce `get` builtin as a generalized version of `take` and `drop`

One possible argument for the `get` proposal: I assume that the intent is for get to return just one element from the sequence in the absence of a colon, so...

Introduce `get` builtin as a generalized version of `take` and `drop`

Note: For concistency, the colon should be replaced by `..`, if and when #669 is implemented.

Make multiple glob modifiers behave like chaining, instead of Cartesian product

I think sorting needs to be kept as simple as possible. Once you start worrying about case, next you have to worry about accents, NFC versus NFD forms, and whether...